Chapter 9 Section 2: Challenges to the New

Government
Objectives
Identify the challenges posed by competing claims in
the Northwest Territory and by the Whiskey Rebellion
and how they were resolved
List reasons why the new nation remained neutral in
European conflicts and how that position affected
foreign relations
Standards
8 U4.1.2
Establishing Americas Place in the World Explain
the changes in Americas relationships with other nations
by analyzing treaties with American Indian nations, Jays
Treaty (1795), French Revolution, Pickneys Treaty (1795),
Louisiana Purchase, War of 1812, Transcontinental Treaty
(1819), and the Monroe Doctrine.
8 U4.1.3.2
Challenge of Political Conflict foreign relations
(e.g., French Revolution, relations with Great Britain)